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HE drawing forth of the spirit from the body, and its introduction into the spiritual world, is what is commonly called resurrection. The spirit of man is not separated from the body until the motion of the heart has ceased, because the heart corresponds to the affection which is of love, and love is the very life of man; for every one has vital heat from love. Therefore so long as this union continues [i. e. the union between the body and the spirit], correspondence is maintained, and thence the life of the spirit in the body. (H. H. 447.)

After the dissolution of the body, the spirit appears in the spiritual world in the human form altogether as the man appeared in the natural world. He possesses the faculty of seeing, hearing, speaking and feeling, as he did in the world; and he is endowed with every power of thought, will and action, as he was when in the world. In a word he is a man in all respects, even to the most minute particular, except that he is not encompassed with the